Hypertension is the most common serious condition in the Gulf, and the least dramatic. It arrives without symptoms, settles in without protest, and does its damage over decades. This book follows it from the salt cellar to the artery wall, in prose meant to be read in an evening rather than studied over a term.
It is written for the intelligent general reader — a student, a nurse, a parent who has just been handed a diagnosis — with the full scholarship kept underneath for anyone who wants to go down. The aim is not to alarm but to make a familiar thing visible, and to leave the reader able to see their own table more clearly.
Inside
I. The invisible epidemic · II. A short history of salt in Arabia · III. What the artery remembers · IV. Reading a label, reading a life